First program

[BhaaL]

I've been using:

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<< endl;

Ive started to use \n

You might want to use endl if you plan to write portable code, since it becomes \n on *nix, \r on mac os and \r\n on windows if i'm not mistaken.

but, where would I include the \n in the following code?

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cout << "First we will add: " << tempInt1 << " + " << tempInt2 << " = " << total1;

Wherever you want it (and would have put the \n):

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cout << "First we will add: " << tempInt1 << " + " << tempInt2 << " = " << total1 << endl;

to make it "First we will add: 1 + 2 = 3<newline here>
".
Or probably

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cout << "First we will add: " << endl << tempInt1 << " + " << tempInt2 << " = " << total1 << endl;

to make it "First we will add: <newline here>
1 + 2 = 3<newline here>
".

[STUDIOny]

Ill use endl then.
From the dude on the first page, he seemed to think I should be using \n

Anyway, one more question, what is the advange of using printf?

[BhaaL]

Real advantage, formatting. Individual advantage, preference.
You can do easy things like this with printf:

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printf("Number in hex, at eight digits: 0x%08x.\n", 4919);

while C++ and ostream-modifiers look like that:

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std::cout << "Number in hex, at eight digits: 0x" << std::hex << std::setw(8) << std::setfill('0') << 4919 << "." << std::endl;

Just a matter of preference, yet the latter can become ugly and annoying the more you want to print.

You could have done C instead if you wanted

[STUDIOny]

Thanks man, Ill have a go with printf ;]

I think I would just feel a bit weird going and learning C, when I've just started to learn C++
I figure I should just stick to what I have started, but I don't know...

EDIT: Changed my code to the below, looking better?

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#include <iostream>
#include <stdio.h>

using namespace std;

int main( void )

{

int tempInt1 = 1;
int tempInt2 = 2;
int tempInt3 = 3;
int total1 = tempInt1 + tempInt2;
int total2 = total1 * tempInt3;

    printf("Hello World!\n");
    printf("We are going to be adding a few numbers:\n");
    printf("First we will add: %i + %i = %i\n", tempInt1, tempInt2, total1);
    printf("Next, we will multiply %i * %i = %i\n", total1, tempInt3, total2);
    printf("Goodbye world!");

    return 0;

}


[BhaaL]

Remove the #include <iostream> and the using namespace std; and you have C.
C++ just builds on top of C, and adds object orientedness. You might be better off using/trying to learn C first if you have no idea about OOP and the sorts, to learn procedural style first.

[STUDIOny]

Yes, I have no prior knowledge of programming, so, when it comes to OOP, I have just read bits and bobs about it in general, but programming in OOP, I don't have a clue.
If C is basically what I have just written, I don't see it being much of a hassle going to it, from what I already know from c++, being nearly the same.

Ill give it a look..

[tgoe]

I think the gripe about endl is performance.
I just did some crude testing with these programs

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/* one.c */
#include <stdio.h>

int main(void) {
    int i;
    for(i = 0; i != 10000; i++) {
        printf("Imagine\nyou're\ndoing\nlots\nof\noutput.\n");
    }

    return 0;
}


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// two.cpp
#include <iostream>

using namespace std;

int main(void) {
    int i;
    for(i = 0; i != 10000; i++) {
        cout << "Imagine" << endl << "you're" << endl << "doing" <<
             endl << "lots" << endl << "of" << endl << "output." << endl;
    }

    return 0;
}


by timing their output redirected to separate files. The C version is instantaneous. The C++ version takes about 1/5 of a second. Turns out that endl does an implicit buffer flush each time (std::flush()?). So the above C++ is more like this C:

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#include <stdio.h>

int main(void) {
    int i;
    for(i = 0; i != 10000; i++) {
        printf("Imagine\n");
        fflush(stdout);
        printf("you're\n");
        fflush(stdout);
        printf("doing\n");
        fflush(stdout);
        printf("lots\n");
        fflush(stdout);
        printf("of\n");
        fflush(stdout);
        printf("output.\n");
        fflush(stdout);
    }

    return 0;
}


which is obviously slower and probably not what you intended.

[BhaaL]

Output is slow in general. If you ever have performance-critical stuff, I doubt it would/should be printing that much to slow it down even further.
But I doubt performance and optimization are the last things he wants to hear, he's just about to get started.

[tgoe]

Agreed. This thread had just gotten me curious

[STUDIOny]

To be fair i am looking to learn an much as possible, so what tgoe had posted was helpful.